LUGANO, Switzerland, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Helsinn Healthcare SA, a Swiss pharmaceutical group, together with its partner Eisai Corporation of North America and Eisai's U.S. subsidiary, MGI Pharma, Inc., today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Aloxi(R) (palonosetron hydrochloride) injection for the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) for up to 24 hours following surgery. Efficacy beyond 24 hours has not been demonstrated.

WILTON, Connecticut, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Startech Environmental Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: STHK), a fully reporting company and the internationally recognized, Award-winning environment and energy company announced today that its 2007 Year End Report, filed on schedule with the SEC, shows Shareholders' Equity in excess of US$4.4 million with approximately US$11.6 million in Cash on Hand, along with Plasma Converter Sales Bookings of approximately US$25 million.

The Company also announced the Annual Shareholders Meeting in May in its recent filing with the SEC.

HOLMDEL, New Jersey, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Sparta Systems, Inc. (Sparta), the maker of TrackWise,(R) and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance management software, announced today that Bioniche Pharma, a leading developer and manufacturer of sterile injectable pharmaceutical and Medical Device products, deployed TrackWise to handle its critical quality management and compliance activities.

Given the complexity of the pharmaceutical field, companies face strict regulations that require stringent levels of accuracy. Deviations from validated and other processes can affect quality, and as a result, need to be recorded, assessed for product impact and investigated to determine root cause.

DENVER and NEW YORK, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

CQG, the premier analytics and order routing solution for global electronically-traded futures markets, today announced that it is increasing order routing capabilities by providing trading access directly from the CQG Integrated Client to ICAP's BrokerTec platform for existing BrokerTec clients transacting in U.S. Treasury benchmarks. ICAP's BrokerTec platform is recognized as the premier source of global electronic U.S. Treasury trading.

LONDON, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Manpower Software plc, a leading provider of workforce optimisation and electronic rostering solutions, and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), are delighted to announce the formation of a strategic alliance to deliver the benefits from implementing Manpower Software's MAPS Healthroster solution in the UK NHS.

The combined strength of PwC's NHS consultancy division and Manpower Software's market leading position in staff rostering will assist trusts to a speedy realisation of the benefits this electronic duty rostering solution can provide. PwC will provide a range of services in conjunction with the overall implementation of MAPS Healthroster, to help trusts realise the benefits from effective rostering of staff.

From Gods To Avicenna

Originating as divine and supernatural, Greek medicine changed and moved toward analysis and logical thinking during the period 800 B.C. to 460 C.E.

Thales (636-546 B.C.), philosopher and scientist, undertakes examination about the laws of nature and physics. He supposed that water (moisture) was the first element from which the world was formed.

Empedocles (Agrigento c.495- c.435 B.C.) philosopher and physician, who lived in Sicily, wrote “On Nature” and “On Purification“. Its system was based on the interaction of the four elements (fire, air, earth and water), called by him “rhizomata” (roots) under the influence of love and hate (attraction and repulsion). He studied circulation of the blood and atmospheric pressure, foreshadowed view of evolution. He was the founder of Italian medicine.

A problem which has defeated mathematicians for almost 140 years has been solved by a researcher at Imperial College London.

Professor Darren Crowdy, Chair in Applied Mathematics, has made the breakthrough in an area of mathematics known as conformal mapping, a key theoretical tool used by mathematicians, engineers and scientists to translate information from a complicated shape to a simpler circular shape so that it is easier to analyze.

This theoretical tool has a long history and has uses in a large number of fields including modelling airflow patterns over intricate wing shapes in aeronautics.

MOSCOW, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces its interest in acquiring Oriel Resources Plc (Oriel).

Mechel OAO is currently contemplating the acquisition of Oriel. This process is at an early stage and there can be no certainty that any offer will ultimately be forthcoming.

Oriel Resources Plc is a London-based chrome and nickel mining and processing company, which listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM: ORI) of the London Stock Exchange in March 2004 and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: ORL) in February 2005. Key assets of Oriel include: the Tikhvin smelter, the Voskhod chrome and the Shevchenko nickel projects.

LONDON, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite national officer, Dougie Rooney says,

"The price increases that energy companies are imposing are plunging hundreds of thousands of new households into fuel poverty.

The Government must take tough action and levy a windfall tax unless energy companies are prepared to take genuine action to help the 4.5 million people living in fuel poverty."

Contact: Ciaran Naidoo +44-(0)7768-931-315

Throughout the world, amateurs, experts and the media agree that prolonged jogging raises people's spirits. And many believe that the body’s own opioids, so called endorphins, are the cause of this. But in fact this has never been proved until now.

Researchers at the Technische Universität München and the University of Bonn succeeded to demonstrate the existence of an ‘endorphin driven runner’s high’. In an imaging study they were able to show, for the first time, increased release of endorphins in certain areas of the athletes' brains during a two-hour jogging session.